Higher Ed Dive

MARCH 20, 2023

Proposed legislation would also block state institutions from mandating diversity training and working with Chinese entities.

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Wonkhe

MARCH 20, 2023

Many institutions run enhanced onboarding for neurodiverse students. Edward Mills reflects on his own autism diagnosis and how he uses it to help his students The post Supporting neurodiverse students through the transition to university appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

MARCH 20, 2023

Higher ed disservices students by making the importance of social networking implicit, nonprofit Jobs for the Future said.

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Wonkhe

MARCH 20, 2023

Last week’s Budget abolished the limit on how much can be built up in a pensions pot without extra tax charges – and the change will affect some university staff. Paul Curran examines the window of opportunity The post Removing the lifetime allowance cap on pensions has big implications for higher education appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

MARCH 20, 2023

Overcome information deficits so those in prison can access student debt relief, the manager of JSTOR's Access to Prison Education initiative writes.

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Wonkhe

MARCH 20, 2023

Sunday Blake dives into a new report on neurodiverse students' experiences in accommodation, and asks what further support is needed The post Neurodiverse students need more than just accommodations appeared first on Wonkhe.

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The Berkeley Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

Dear Dr. Sachs, We are a group of economists, including many Ukrainians, who were appalled by your statements on the Russian war against Ukraine and were compelled to write this open letter to address some of the historical misrepresentations and logical fallacies in your line of argument. Following your repeated appearances on the talk shows.

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Higher Ed Dive

MARCH 20, 2023

This op-ed series offers insight from an expert who’s led a college merger and specializes in higher education partnerships.

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The PIE News

MARCH 20, 2023

Language and employability skills provider Twin has launched a volunteering program to meet demand for work experience after Brexit rules took away opportunities for European students. The volunteering program, lasting up to six-weeks, is open to any students on standard, six-month UK visitor visas, and offers experiences in retail, the arts and culture, administration, sports, animal care, marketing and more. “The level of demand for internships for the UK has remained high despite Brexit

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

Blog: University of Venus Burnout has been the focus of much of my work life for the last five years—first experiencing it as a tenured faculty member, then writing about it as a researcher and memoirist, and now coaching about and facilitating workshops on it as well as burnout resilience for faculty across the country. In my book Unraveling Faculty Burnout: Pathways to Reckoning and Renewal (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022), I dive deep into my personal experience and share those of

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2023

Erim Gómez, PhD, was 5 years old when he saw a National Geographic documentary about grizzly bears in Yellowstone National Park. From that moment on, he was determined to work with wildlife. Although he doesn’t engage directly with grizzlies, as an assistant professor of wildlife biology at the University of Montana (UM), Gómez has found his niche at the home of the “Griz.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

Image: Last month, more than 20 years after the Archives of Sexual Behavior published research surveying gay people about whether they were molested as children—and whether they identified as gay before or after—a note appeared online. “A reader alerted the editor-in-chief that there were concerns regarding some of the data,” the four-paragraph note on the article says.

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The PIE News

MARCH 20, 2023

The Canada Border Services Agency is investigating a scheme in which Indian agents provided students with fake college acceptance letters to obtain study permits and gain entrance to the country, a representative told The PIE News. The news comes as Colleges Ontario, the sector association representing public colleges, has finally moved to crack down on unscrupulous agents and offer more support for international students.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Ask yourself: Would the $20 million gift that Bloomberg Philanthropies gave to Princeton in 2021 to support the university’s first-generation and low-income students have a greater impact at Tougaloo College, an HBCU with a $10 million endowment? The very question—posed by educational historian Bruce A. Kimball and Sarah M.

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Higher Education Today

MARCH 20, 2023

Title: Students of Color May Be Disproportionately Harmed by States’ Need-Based Aid Eligibility Requirements Source: The Urban Institute Author: Sandy Baum College students who are applying for financial aid are presented with multiple options in state and federal grants. Federal Pell Grants are available to students from low-income backgrounds as determined by the FAFSA.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

The hostile takeover of public higher education in Florida continues, as seen in the latest higher education bill introduced in the state’s House of Representatives. Among its provisions, the legislation would force public colleges and universities to remove any academic major or minor focused on “Critical Race Theory, Gender Studies, or Intersectionality, or any derivative major or minor.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2023

A new research project is working to streamline classifications for minority-serving institutions (MSIs) to ensure data is accurate and consistent for research, advocacy, and policymaking efforts. The MSI Data Project offers free, public-access dashboards with statistics about student enrollment and graduation rates, funding statuses, and other MSI data between 2017-2021.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

Image: Gustavus Adolphus College went 161 years without any graduate programs. But a combination of competitive pressures, demographic patterns and accreditation requirements in one of its most job skill–focused undergraduate fields has led the private liberal arts institution to create its first-ever master’s degree—and to consider adding others.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2023

Over the next two years, leaders in government, industry, and education will work together to create a shared vision of the future of education-to-career pathways that addresses long-standing inequities and ensure sustainability. The initiative, entitled Launch: Equitable & Accelerated Pathways for All (Launch), is a large-scale national partnership between higher education institutions, nonprofit organizations, state and local governments, workforce leaders, and K-12 school districts create

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

Image: As a college student, Josh Landau was close to dropping out. He had not declared a major or developed an awareness of his needed academic tools, but Landau was motivated to learn for the sake of learning. Now, as a higher education professional, he wants to support others to succeed in the ways he did. Associate provost for student success at York College in Pennsylvania since 2016, Landau spoke to Inside Higher Ed about his philosophy for student success, his struggles as an undeclared u

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2023

Eliminating diversity gaps in the real estate profession is the focus of long-standing and new pathway programs at a number of colleges and universities. Demographic representation and pay structures are both in need of overhaul, studies show. Only 5 percent of National Association of Realtors (NAR) members are Black, 5 percent are Asian and Pacific Islander, and 11 percent are Hispanic or Latino, according to a member profile survey taken last year and based on 2021 data.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

Category: Carpe Careers Linda Louie offers four steps that grad students and postdocs can take to get past faulty assumptions and more rigorously examine the best options. Editorial Tags: Career Advice Show on Jobs site: Image Source: Mykyta Dolmatov/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?

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Higher Education Today

MARCH 20, 2023

Title: Transfer and Progress: Fall 2022 Report Authors: Jennifer Causey, Jeremy Cohen, Allyson Gardner, Sarah Karamarkovich, Hee Sun Kim, Shannon Lee, Beatrix Randolph, Mikyung Ryu, and Doug Shapiro Source: National Student Clearinghouse Research Center The COVID-19 pandemic continues to have lasting negative effects on undergraduate student access, enrollment, mobility, and success or degree attainment, particularly.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2023

More than 100 graduate students of color from 18 institutions gathered at Northern Illinois University (NIU) in February for the eighth annual Preparing Future Faculty of Color Conference , which strives to demystify having a career in academia. Janice Hamlet, PhD Organized by Janice Hamlet, PhD, NIU’s associate vice provost for faculty mentoring and diversity, the conference also serves as an opportunity for graduate students and faculty of color to network and explore career pathways.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2023

A focus on small differences in future-earnings statistics can lead students astray. By Zachary Bleemer Kevin Van Aelst for The Chronicle A focus on small differences in future-earnings statistics can lead students astray.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2023

The University of Chicago is partnering with U.S. research universities for an initiative to improve diversity and inclusion in higher education. Dr. Ka Yee C. Lee The initiative comes from university consortium Ivy+ Faculty Advancement Network (FAN), of which UChicago is the host institution. FAN members include Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Duke University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University, Stanford

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2023

By Adrienne Lu Illustration by The Chronicle; Photo by iStock By next week, all University of North Carolina campuses must provide an inventory of employee training programs that cover diversity, race, and unconscious bias.

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Educause

MARCH 20, 2023

We need more than agile methodologies in the higher education IT field. We need personal agile methods.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2023

The Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) and alcohol company Hennessy have announced the fifth cohort of the Hennessy Fellows Program , which aims to prepare the next generation of Black leaders via financial assistance, training, and professional development. This program – for students from historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) – will take those selected to Charlotte for leadership, communication, and media relations workshops over three days and New York City for a boot camp o

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2023

Universities and colleges work hard to ensure diversity among faculty and staff, so when a valued employee from an underrepresented group enters a human resources office for their exit interview — and that’s the first time a supervisor learns the individual has been dissatisfied in their job — alarm bells should start ringing. Of course, by then it’s far too late to convince that employee to reconsider leaving.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2023

College women majoring in STEM fields more frequently experience sexual assault than those not in STEM, a recent Georgia State University (GSU) study found. Dr. Laura Salazar The study – published in the early online edition of the Journal of Interpersonal Violence – analyzed survey data from 318 undergraduate STEM majors at five U.S. higher ed institutions.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2023

Olasubomi Olawepo After enrolling at a historically Black university, Nigerian immigrant Olasubomi Olawepo was inspired by the sense of community he felt on campus. That feeling motivated Olawepo, a senior at Alabama A&M University majoring in computer science and software development, to create career networking software that helps connect students and alumni from historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2023

Danelle Steven-Watkins Danelle Steven-Watkins has been named acting dean of the College of Education at the University of Kentucky. Stevens-Watkins has a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Louisville, a master’s in clinical psychology from Spalding University in Louisville, and a Ph.D. in counseling psychology from the University of Kentucky.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2023

After repeatedly being passed up for advancement opportunities and raises and then later learning of the gender pay gap in her role as an event planner, Susanna McElroy decided it was time to make a change. McElroy is pursuing a career where she can prevent such inequities. As a current MBA student at The George Washington University (GW) School of Business, she serves as MBA Association president and is a fellow with the Forté Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to women’s professional developmen

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

Sam Joeckel said Palm Beach Atlantic University “made the disappointing decision to terminate my contract early,” The Palm Beach Post reported. The move came a month after administrators told Joeckel they were investigating a concern raised by a parent that he was “indoctrinating” his students by incorporating lessons about racial justice into his writing composition course.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2023

One day after the mass shooting incident at Michigan State University in February, a University of Florida (UF) student called the UF Police Department (UFPD) concerned about a classmate who was researching guns and ammunition. Instead of just police responding to the call, a trained behavioral health specialist was also dispatched. Meggen Sixbey, PhD “Our clinicians and officers spent three hours with that person to really flesh out why he was searching what he was searching,” says Meggen Sixbe

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

Women majoring in science, technology, engineering and math fields are subjected to sexual violence at higher rates than their non-STEM counterparts, a new Georgia State University study suggests. Additionally, it showed that women in STEM fields that have equal numbers of men and women—such as chemistry, biology and math—faced more sexual violence than those in disciplines that are not gender balanced.

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